Proverbs and old sayings Persian, page 15

343 proverbs and old sayings persian

He pushes it away with the hand, but pulls it forward with the foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

The horse is Turkmen, it eats from both the nose-bag and the manger.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

With a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

It is too late for you, let God give your children some intelligence.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about intelligence, children, god

You only appreciate your father the day you become a father yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about day

What my heart wanted didn't happen -- What God wanted, that happened.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about heart, god

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about work

I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about man

Whatever you eat will rot, whatever you give will blossom into a rose.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about common sense, sense

Giving advice to the ignorant is like the rain falling on muddy ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about advice, rain

Woe to Leili's doogh, the yogurt was too little and the water too much.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about water

Flies will easily fly into the honey -- their problem is how to get out.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about nothing

If the Sultan demands five eggs, let his soldiers roast a thousand chickens.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about wisdom

When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

If there are two cooks in one house, the soup is either too salty or too cold.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about kitchen, home, house

If children's prayer had any effect, there wouldn't be a single teacher alive.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about teachers, children